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2011 Renault Latitude Concept Photos

2011 Renault Latitude Concept.

News: If you’re one of those advantageous abundant to be in France for the Paris Motor Show after this year, you ability aloof apprehension a huge army alive about the Renault stage, absorption on the new (and rather acceptable handsome) Samsung SM5-based Renault Latitude.

This huge army will not be bodies who adulation the car. On the contrary, these bodies abhorrence the car and what it stands for – the acceptation of a Renault artefact that’s not congenital in France into the continent. The Confédération Générale du Travail or CGT (English: General Confederation of Labour, a union) will be bringing in bus-loads of workers to authenticate adjoin Renault’s plan to acceptation the Renault Latitude, as able-bodied as Renault’s perceived about-face appear across production. I don’t accusation them – Western European labour is expensive!

The Latitude is car based on the Renault Laguna, but looks absolutely altered and costs beneath to make, both because of architecture and the actuality that its congenital at a added affordable site. The Laguna isn’t accomplishing that able-bodied in Europe compared to its Volkswagen and Vauxhall/Opel rivals. Renault’s bazaar allotment in the mid-size car articulation that the Laguna competes in accept alone by about bisected in the accomplished 7 years – it now stands at 3.4% compared to 7.5% in 2003.